Re: Solstice at Sherman

From: rossb@WellsFargo.COM-DeleteThis
Date: Tue Jun 23 1998 - 11:57:00 PDT


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Subject: Re: Solstice at Sherman
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 11:57:00 -0700
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Before Jim calibrated that pager last summer (or the summer before--I live
in dog years) I had it pegged. I could rig to it. Then he decided it
needed calibration, and as far as I'm concerned, it became meaningless at 20
and up. In my not so HO, I think we're way better off calibrating the pagers
via our own experience than we are with Jim programming in someone else's
thoughts. I can't imagine he's got a neural net programmed to teach the
thing--he probably adds 10% if SW and reading 13 to 18, or something equally
rudimentary and inaccurate. My not-so-humble-vote is for no calibration at
all. It is an absolute requirement that Jim tells us if he changes it. (I
was so pissed when he changed Rio that year--I missed a month of sailing out
there before I went inspite of what the pager read and thereby discovered it
had changed--that he gave me a month free.) BTW I know other people who
have a completely different opinion about the pager's meaning in a NW than
that described below.
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From: Jerry Gardner
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Re: Solstice at Sherman
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 7:54AM

>Based on Ed Scott's sail size report from Rio this weekend, looks like
adding 5 mph to
>the COTW Sherman readings would be a good rule of thumb.
>
>BobP
>
I tried that about two weeks ago--it was reading SW16-17-18. Conditions were
barely sailable (5.2-6.0) for me at 140#. The other day when it was raging
NW the readings seemed to be dead accurate. I do not mind making mental
corrections to the numbers, but there seems to be a lack of consistency.
Last night it went to 20. Was it really 25? Or 18? Anybody sail there last
night?

Jerry



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